1st Edition

The Medieval Natural World

By Richard Jones Copyright 2013
208 Pages
by Routledge

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by Routledge

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How did medieval people make sense of their surroundings, and how did this change over the years as understanding and knowledge expanded? This new Seminar Study is designed to familiarise students of medieval history with the ways in which medieval people interpreted the world around them – how they rationalised their observations, and why they developed the models for understanding that... Read more

Contents

 

Abbreviations

Chronology

Who’s Who

PART 1: ANALYSIS

1.   The Nature of Things

2.    Universal Models

3. On the Heavens   

4.    Meteorology

5.    Image of the World

6. Man and Nature

7. On Animals

8.    On Plants

9.   On Minerals

10. The Book of Nature

 

PART 2: DOCUMENTS

 

FURTHER READING

REFERENCES

INDEX

 

Biography

Jones, Richard